Happy St. Patrick's Day! Bump
Seriously, do you have some woman's work of the administrative variety that you want to pass on to me? I'm back in the game and well, we women have to do the work, y'know. :)
"I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war. I will close by saying, God bless the women of America!"
The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume VII, "Remarks at Closing of Sanitary Fair, Washington D.C." (March 18, 1864), p. 254.